POURQUOI ENTRER A L'UNIVERSITE? L'EXEMPLE D'UNE UNIVERSITE DE LETTRES ET SCIENCES HUMAINES

POURQUOI ENTRER A L'UNIVERSITE?
L'EXEMPLE D'UNE UNIVERSITE DE LETTRES ET SCIENCES HUMAINES

VALERIE CANALS et CLAUDE DIEBOLT

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THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY: REFLECTIONS FROM NEW ZEALAND

THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY: REFLECTIONS FROM NEW
ZEALAND

PETER ROBERTS

Over the past two decades, references to "crises" in tertiary education - and in universities in particular - have appeared with increasing frequency in popular and academic texts. Some commentators have concentrated on shortfalls in funding and the exploitation of staff; others have focused on the "moral collapse" of the university, or on issues of curriculum reform and "political correctness" in the classroom. In New Zealand, as in many other countries of the Western World, serious concerns have been raised about the commodification, marketisation and privatisation of education at the university level. This paper provides a concise overview of recent changes in the tertiary sector in New Zealand, and considers possible futures for higher education in the 21st century. Special attention is paid to three themes: the emergence of the "perpetual chooser"; potential changes in conditions of work for academics; and the reconfiguration of academic priorities in the age of the market. The prospects for resistance against elements of the marketisation process are briefly assessed.

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ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR ET ORIGINE SOCIALE EN FRANCE: ETUDE STATISTIQUE DES INEGALITES DEPUIS 1965

ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR ET ORIGINE SOCIALE EN FRANCE: ETUDE STATISTIQUE DES INEGALITES DEPUIS 1965

MAGALI JAOUL

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UNIVERSITY REFORM IN LATIN AMERICA: THE CASE OF COLOMBIA

UNIVERSITY REFORM IN LATIN AMERICA: THE CASE OF COLOMBIA

RICHARD S. PELCZAR

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Acceso de la educación en México: un enfoque regional

Acceso de la educación en México: un enfoque regional

DAVID BARKIN

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EVALUACIÓN: ANÁLISIS DE UNA NOCIÓN

EVALUACIÓN: ANÁLISIS DE UNA NOCIÓN

ALICIA DE ALBA
ÁNGEL DIAZ BARRIGA
MARTHA VIESCA A.

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Educación universitaria y movilidad social. Reclutamiento de élites en Colombia

Educación universitaria y movilidad social. Reclutamiento de élites en Colombia

GERMAN W. RAMA

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Análisis cuantitativo de la planeación educacional. Revisión bibliográfica

Análisis cuantitativo de la planeación educacional. Revisión bibliográfica

CARLOS GÓMEZ FIGUEROA

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ANTONIO CORNEJO POLAR Y LA UNIVERSIDAD POPULAR LATINOAMERICANA. SU EXPERIENCIA COMO RECTOR DE SAN MARCOS

ANTONIO CORNEJO POLAR Y LA UNIVERSIDAD POPULAR LATINOAMERICANA. SU EXPERIENCIA COMO RECTOR DE SAN MARCOS

Raúl Bueno Chávez
Dartmouth College
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

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UNIVERSIDAD, MODERNIZACIÓN Y CRISIS DE LA RAZÓN

UNIVERSIDAD, MODERNIZACIÓN Y CRISIS DE LA RAZÓN

ROBERTO A. FOLLARI

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TENDENCIAS DE LA FORMACION DE PROFESORES UNIVERSITARIOS EN EL PAIS

TENDENCIAS DE LA FORMACION DE PROFESORES UNIVERSITARIOS EN EL PAIS

ANA HIRSCH ADLER

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PRIVATIZATION OR MARKETIZATION: EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN POST-MAO CHINA

PRIVATIZATION OR MARKETIZATION: EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN POST-MAO CHINA

KA HO MOK

In the post-Mao era, the reformers have taken significant steps to privatize social policy and social welfare. Revamping the social security system and commodifying social services have become more prominent since the mid-eighties. Despite the post-Mao leaders' discomfort about the term "privatization", signs of state withdrawal from the provision of social policy and welfare are clear. The author argues that the emergence of private educational institutions indicates that China's educational development has gone through a similar process of privatization or quasi- marketization though the Chinese experience is different from that of Western coun- terparts. Specifically, this paper tries to examine how the flourishing market economy and the policy of decentralization have affected the development of China's higher education. No longer solely relying on public schools, private and minban (people run) educational institutions are becoming more popular in the new socialist market system. This paper attempts to examine how privatization and quasi-marketization have affected educational development in mainland China. The paper concludes with a discussion of the policy implications of the privatization of education in China.

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GLOBALISATION AND HIGHER EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

GLOBALISATION AND HIGHER EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

RUI YANG

This article sets out to analyse critically the nature of globalisation and how it is affecting higher education. The author first reviews the nature of globalisa- tion, and then examines its international impact on higher education development. He contends that globalisation is predominantly economic, and points out that global exchanges in the economic, cultural and educational domains continue to be unequal. At the same time, education is increasingly treated as a business. By exposing the negative side of globalisation and its effects on universities, the author aims to counter the uncritical acceptance of globalisation as a positive force for higher education and society as a whole.

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Motivación, Aprendizaje y Rendimiento Académico en Estudiantes del Primer Año Universitario

Motivación, Aprendizaje y Rendimiento Académico en Estudiantes del Primer Año Universitario

Alicia Cardozo
Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela
acardozo@usb.ve

El estudio analiza la consistencia del MSLQ (Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire) en una muestra de 406 estudiantes venezolanos del primer año universitario y su relación con el rendimiento académico en la asignatura de matemáticas. El análisis factorial para la escala de motivación (alpha=.83) revela que las sub-escalas de valor de la tarea, autoeficacia, ansiedad y control de creencias son consistentes con su constructo, no así las de orientación hacia la tarea, que se diluyen en el resto de las sub-escalas. En cuanto a la escala de estrategias de aprendizaje (alpha= .85) se redistribuye en las subescalas de elaboración, organización, aprovechamiento del tiempo, autorregulación y ayuda. La correlación del MSLQ con el rendimiento (nota definitiva) en matemáticas, evidencia una relación significativa entre esta y los puntajes obtenidos en el MSLQ y entre ambas escalas. Se discuten los hallazgos e implicaciones para la enseñanza universitaria.

Palabras claves: Motivación, estrategias, aprendizaje, universitario, validez

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Learning, Motivation and Academic Achievement in Venezuelan College Students

Learning, Motivation and Academic Achievement in Venezuelan College Students

Alicia Cardozo H
Universidad Simón Bolívar
Caracas- Venezuela
acardozo@usb.ve

The purpose of the study was to determine relationships between college students' academic achievement and their motivational and learning strategies. The goals were: a) To identify possible relations between motivational and learning strategies and academic performance, b) To identify significant differences in the use of strategies between high- and low-performance students ,and c) to determine whether significant changes in motivational and learning strategies were deployed by the students as a result of the demands and requirements of college-level studies. Students (162) were administered the Motivated Learning Strategies Questionnaire (MSLQ) at the beginning of first and end of the second academic quarter. (The MSLQ had previously been validated for the Venezuelan university population.

Results indicate that between the beginning and end of the academic term there were significant changes in the selective use of motivational, cognitive and metacognitive strategies. High correlation between motivational and learning strategies and academic achievement was found. Students met their learning goals through the deployment of cognitive and metacognitive strategies, and the implementation of motivational strategies. The results of this study are intended to lay the groundwork for a larger scope intervention designed to increase levels of academic endeavour as well as to improve equity in access to university education.

Key words: Motivation, learning strategies, college students.

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Issues and perspectives for higher education in Argentina in the 1990s

Issues and perspectives for higher education in Argentina in the 1990s


HECTOR R. GERTEL

Instituto de Economia y Finanzas, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba,

In Argentina, inadequate financing of higher education is an old rather than a new issue. The paper takes a close look at the financing issues associated with the evolution of national universities in Argentina in 1960-1990. Accordingly, the first and second sections highlight the major trend of the last thirty years in student population, faculty staff and goverment spending. The third section explores the teaching and research labor market covered by the national universities. The fourth section includes a discussion of several proposals under debate to ease existing constraints to the financing of higher education. Finally, the feasibility of these proposals, as well as their limitations and possibilities in the light of the the long run trend in enrollment and expenditures reviewed in the previous sections are discussed.

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Fitting In? Making Higher Education Part of the New Development Model

Fitting In? Making Higher Education Part of the New Development Model

Daniel C. Levy State
University of New York at Albany

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Vinculación entre instituciones educativas y unidades productivas

Vinculación entre instituciones educativas y unidades productivas

ALEJANDRO MUNGARAY
PATRICIA MOCTEZUMA

Sostenido en la visión de economistas que han encontrado una amplia relación entre desarrollo económico y educación, en México el concepto de vinculación entre instituciones educativas y unidades productivas se ha concentrado de manera primordial en los beneficios que ambas pueden obtener de las actividades de investigación. Este enfoque, que relaciona las posibilidades de una investigación de alta calidad con las necesidades de los sectores modernos de la economía, ha dejado de lado el potencial de la vinculación del proceso de formación de profesionales con las necesidades de los sectores tradicionales de la economía, principalmente en el ámbito de las pequeñas empresas, para construir una relación socialmente más sólida entre economía y educación en México. Una propuesta de reorganización curricular sostenida en prácticas educativas complementarias a las existentes ayudaría a redimensionar las posibilidades de una vinculación más amplia y provechosa orientada por el bienestar el empleo como objetivos básicos de la sociedad y como elemento orientador de la política pública respecto de la educación superior

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Diversification in Argentine higher education: Dimensions and impact of private sector growth

Diversification in Argentine higher education: Dimensions and impact of private sector growth

CLEMENCIA COSENTINO DE COHEN

Sociology Department, Princeton University,

Private education is a remarkably dynamic area of change in post-secondary educa- tion, particularly in Latin America. Evidence of growth in the number of private institutions and enrollment suggests that higher education is becoming increasingly diversified into two sectors - public and private. While this appears to be true throughout Latin America, and much of the developing world, recent evidence from Argentina casts doubt on the degree to which private sector growth trends may actually translate into a significant increase in the impact of private institutions in higher education, where impact is proxied by the relative share of student enrollment and graduates. This study explores the dimensions and impact of private expansion in Argentina, and places the findings in a comparative (regional) and theoretical framework. The analysis shows that, despite unprecedented growth in the number of private universities, the public sector remains the dominant provider of university education. Private institutions, while certainly more numerous and training a growing number of students, do not account for a larger share of university enrollment. They have, however, developed specific niches (e.g., in graduate level training and in urban areas). Significantly, following a pattern of institutional proliferation found throughout Latin America, some private universities offer elite alternatives to prestigious public institutions. The findings serve to qualify apparent 'gains' in private higher education and to underscore the need for further research into the relevant intrasectoral (public and private) dimensions of change in post-secondary education.

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Gasto privado en educación. México, 1984-1992

Gasto privado en educación. México, 1984-1992

TERESA BRACHO

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